Meyer’s Outtakes

It was a bad day at the Kentucky Derby, Saturday, no doubt. But one casualty there wasn’t much talk about was Hillary. All last week she asked supporters to bet on Eight Belles, the lone filly running in a field of colts — just like her. Well, not only did the filly lose to Big Brown (let’s see, if Hillary is the filly, Big Brown must be…), but, um, she won’t be running in the Maryland or New York (Preakness and Belmont) primaries, either.

Now, whenever something like this happens, good taste dictates not exploiting the tragedy to comment about something else (let alone making light of the tragedy). Which is why cartoonists who have nothing approaching good taste have editors. And which is why neither of these cartoon ideas made the paper.